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MMH Intensive Training:Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care and Ob/Gyn Settings

Monday, September 30, 2024

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Marriott Syracuse Downtown
100 East Onondaga Street, Syracuse, NY

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MMH Intensive Training:Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care and Ob/Gyn Settings

Monday, September 30, 2024

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Marriott Syracuse Downtown
100 East Onondaga Street, Syracuse, NY

Register Now
Overview

This program will enhance a healthcare provider’s skills to assess, treat and manage mental health concerns in perinatal patients. The focus is to provide helpful tools and treatment strategies for ob/gyn’s, family practice, pediatric and psychiatric clinicians to utilize within their practice. This interactive program includes the full-day, in-person training, during which clinicians will have the opportunity to meet and sign-up for site-based learning and consultation time with their local Project TEACH reproductive psychiatrist. This event offers presentations by Project TEACH’s expert team of reproductive psychiatrist and psychologists, along with clinicians from ob/gyn and family medicine.

Project TEACH is funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health and all services and events, such as this intensive training, are offered at no-cost to
clinicians in New York State.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this program :

  • Physicians/clinicians will be able to utilize validated screening tools which will enable them to improve their ability to detect perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
  • Physicians/clinicians will be able to utilize validated suicide risk assessment tools which will enable them to improve their ability to detect suicidal risk in their perinatal patients
  • Physicians/clinicians will have increased knowledge of the risks/benefits/alternatives to the treatment of perinatal psychiatric illness which will enable them to improve informed consent and shared decision making with their patients.
  • Physicians will receive up to date, evidence-based information about when, what, why, and how to use medications in perinatal patients.
Agenda
Monday, September 30, 2024

9:00-9:30 am

Registration

Introduction

9:30-10:00 am

Welcome, Project TEACH overview and housekeeping slides

Kristina Deligiannidis, MD
Module Topic 1: Screening

10:00-10:45 am

Epidemiology, screening and assessment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs)

Yardana Kaufman, MD

10:45-11:30 am

Suicide risk assessment and management in obstetric, pediatric and family medicine practices

Joshna Singh, MD

11:30-11:45 am

How to incorporate screening into primary care practices

Christina Riggall, FNPEllen Tourtelot, MD

11:45-12:15 pm

Symptom assessment and suicide risk assessment on stage with role play (by RPs) followed by table-based discussion

12:15-1:00 pm

Lunch

Module Topic 2: Treatment part 1

1:00-1:50 pm

Psychotherapy and pharmacologic approaches to perinatal depression and anxiety

Nevena Radonjic, MD, Ph.D

1:50-2:40 pm

Assessment and management of bipolar disorder during the perinatal period

Elizabeth Murphy Fitelson, MD

2:40-3:00 pm

Coffee Break

3:00-3:40 pm

Clinical case discussion including shared decision making

Kristina Deligiannidis, MD
Module Topic 3: Treatment part 2

3:40-4:10 pm

Treatment of ADHD in perinatal patients

Jeffrey Iler, MD
Treatment Approaches to Insomnia in Perinatal Patients

4:10-4:40 pm

Treatment of insomnia in perinatal patients

Mark Rapp, MD

4:40-4:55 pm

How to incorporate behavioral health treatment and referrals into primary care practices

Ellen Tourtelot, MD

4:55-5:00 pm

Closing

Kristina Deligiannidis, MD
Target Audience

Obstetrics/gynecology and family practice physicians, pediatricians, midwives, doulas, nursing professionals, residents, and other primary care clinicians working in New York State with perinatal patients.

Tuition

This training program is funded by the NYS Office of Mental Health as part of Project TEACH. It is offered at no cost to physicians and clinicians affiliated with a practice that provides medical or psychiatric treatment to perinatal patients.